It's All A Matter of Perspective
When Robin Redbreast’s song I hearit fills me full of springtime cheer.Poor Worm feels quite another way:he fears he may be lunch today.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2007
In The News: Cook 2-3 Hours Until Totally Burnt
AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Kenny KempRussell Parsons, of Hurricane, W.Va., shows off his tattoo in this undated photo. The 67-year-old had his funeral plans etched on his arm. It reads: Barlow Bonsall, Cook @ 1700 to 1800 degrees for 2 to 3 hours. Question: Which…
Question: Should Public School Kids Wear Uniforms?
Item: Borah High students organize to fight school uniform plan/Anne Wallace Allen, Idaho StatesmanQuote: Principal Greg Frederick: "Uniforms level the field for the haves and the have nots and equalize the status of all students.”Question: Should public school students be forced to wear uniforms?
Huckleberries Gone Wi-Fi -- Hanging Out @ Java on Sherman
I'll be at Java on Sherman for the next hour or so, wi-fi'ing and hanging out. Owner Sam Wallin's handling the cash register. The place is jumping. Not an empty table. Sam asked who I'm going to interview next. I told him Major John Chamness…
Trib: Otter Insults Indian Tribes, Enfeebles Himself
How on earth could Gov. Butch Otter (pictured) have signed legislation requiring him to reach agreement with three Idaho Indian tribes on taxing tribal fuel sales by Dec. 1 or let the state impose its own tax on those sales? The bill he made law…
Tangled Up in the Red, White and Blue
AP Photo/The Wenatchee World, Don Seabrook Wind creates havoc for Kyle Ikerd, 14, who tries to hold onto the United States flag while Jake Godwin, 14, ties the rope back on the pole in front of Eastmont Junior High School in East Wenatchee, Wash., Monday.…
Mary Souza: Handlers of DFO, MikeK Back LCDC
Mary Souza (to: LastDemoinIdaho): To say that the Spokesman Review does not have a bias on this issue is ridiculous. Their attorney, Denny Davis, is on LCDC. The owners of the newspaper are planning their own riverfront development project right near Liberty Lake and they…
AM Hucks: Parents Trample Family Values @ Egg Hunt
There was a reason Family Phil Corless of Coeur d'Alene was stumbling around his backyard in his flip-flops at 2:30 Easter morning. He was hiding 100 eggs and trying to give his two kids a wonderful Easter Sunday memory to wash away the one from…
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2007
Wild Card/Monday -- 4/9/07
It looks like the sunshine is behind us for a coupla days, HBOers. On one hand, that's bad. We all want spring to arrive in all its glory. On the other hand, that means you're inside paying more attention to Huckleberries. As you were last…
Question: Is Idaho Getting Too Big for You
Item: Idaho's cities grow fast as state becomes more urban/Gregory Hahn, Idaho StatesmanIdaho's urban areas keep growing, and a new U.S. Census estimate shows the state's 11 most populous areas grew almost three times faster than the rest of the nation's cities.Idaho's 11 largest communities…
APhoto of the Day (w/Top Cutlines) -- 4/9/07
AP Photo/Charles DharapakFirst lady Laura Bush, seated center, reads "Duck for President" by Doreen Cronin, to children during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington earlier today. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. First Lady Laura…
In The News: As Scary As Any Boogeyman
Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP PhotoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, earlier today. Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, a dramatic expansion of the…
Question: Should Imus Be Banned from Airways?
NEW YORK - After being criticized for his racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, radio host Don Imus said Monday that he's a good person who said a bad thing and will check his acid tongue. "Here's what I've learned: that…
Inside Huckleberries -- 4/6/07
The headline for a press release from Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire's office: "NGA, CCSSO, NASBE officials to offer briefing on NCLB recommendations." Translation? (Hat Tip: Jim Hagengruber)...Our own Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It is one of the nominees for the annual Homeschool Blog Awards…
Huckleberries Gone Wi-Fi to Q&A Kroc Center Chief
Huckleberries Gone Wireless has just lined up an interview with John Chamness, the Salvation Army major who will direct the Kroc Center in Coeur d'Alene when opened. The interview will take place at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Dunno the location yet. But I'd like your questions…
29 Words: Spokane Medical Examiner
In Spokane we have Sally Aiken,An ME who has heads a shaken','Cause though folks are persistent,She's inquest resistant,Seems forensics are all but forsaken!Andy Michaels/29 Words or LessStory: Medical Examiner: No inquest.
Lewiston Tribune: Work Computers for Personal Biz?
Should you be allowed to use your work computer to conduct personal business? -- Lewiston Tribune.*Yes*No*I'm voting from work right now.
DFO: 2007 Legislature Was A Waste of Money
It's difficult to say who had the worst session this year – Idaho legislators or new Gov. Butch Otter. In two online polls, readers from the Idaho Statesman and the Lewiston Tribune rained D's and F's down on the 2007 Legislature for its failure to…
OrangeTV: Sherman Lofts Building Is Butt Ugly
I do have to agree with Mary (Souza) here that that that huge fake brick walled condo on Sherman Ave (Sherman Lofts) is 10 times fugly and then some. I can't figure out for the life of me why they couldn't have simply put some…
AM Hucks: Let's Milk It for All It's Worth
So, there I was minding my own business when Danelle Reagan and Tracy Shewmake stepped through our elevator – with Sophie, a brown-and-white goat from a Spokane Valley farm. Some old goats have visited the S-R over the years. But this was a young one,…
SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2007
Easter Wild Card -- 4/8/07
I'm just going to post this Wild Card today. I hope you all go outside and enjoy the sunshine -- and Easter Sunday. It's a day that matters to me. It has given meaning to my life for the last 35 years. He is risen.…
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2007
It's My 2 Cents: Help Me Tweak HBO Gone Wireless
OK, now that the we home boys and girls have the blog to ourselves, it's time to discuss how to improve the Huckleberries Gone Wireless feature. First, what do you think of the name? Should it be shortened to Huckleberries Gone Wi-Fi? Or mebbe even…
RSPA: Bond Wrote from His Painful Experiences
From previous thread about Bond hereBond used to write for the S-R. He is an admitted alcoholic and wrote some astonishingly raw and painfully eloquent columns about his drinking and recovery. He was a rare columnist who would actually dip his pen in his blood…
Downtowner: Many Young Families Live Downtown
Hello, DanG; I've been catching up on Huckleberries Online and the debate about LCDC. This may be out of place, but I wanted to let you know that you should explore, on foot, the downtown area near the new library. There are a lot of…
MikeK: I Used to Think DFO Was An SOB ...
MikeK: When I first encountered DFO in 1991 those three dots were not unlike three small but serious stab wounds visited upon those who'd embarrassed themselves enough to make it into the column. If you somehow made the 'Sweet Potatoes' section it was cause for…
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